E-learning for Kids
E Learning for Kids: Science: Caribbean Sea: How Can We Classify Animals?
Welcome to Hideaway Island where five pirates need to find crews for their ships. Join in and learn about animals with backbones.
Enchanted Learning
Enchanted Learning: Kansas Facts, Map and State Symbols
A colorful site with basic information about Kansas. Includes a map, facts about the state, and information about the state symbols.
Animal Fact Guide
Animal Fact Guide: Spotted Salamander
Read interesting facts on the Spotted Salamander including information on its physical characteristics, habitat (with a distribution map), diet, breeding patterns, unique traits and behavior, conservation status, and tips on what you can...
DLTK
Kid Zone: Animal Classes
A comprehensive and colorful site that lists the various classes of animals with pictures and descriptions.
San Diego Zoo Global
San Diego Zoo: Kids: Poison Frog
Colorful resource for learning fun facts about poison frogs with photographs as well as information regarding their physical characteristics and unique features.
National Geographic Kids
National Geographic Kids: Animals: Spotted Salamander
National Geographic site engages users with colorful photos and extensive facts about Spotted Salamanders. Be sure to click on the video link to view a short clip on these fascinating animals.
National Geographic Kids
National Geographic Kids: Animals: American Bullfrogs
National Geographic site engages users with colorful photos and extensive facts about American Bullfrogs. Be sure to click on the video link to view a short clip on these fascinating animals.
National Geographic Kids
National Geographic Kids: Animals: Red Eyed Tree Frogs
National Geographic site engages users with colorful photos and extensive facts about Red-Eyed Tree Frogs. Be sure to click on the video link to view a short clip on these fascinating animals.
National Geographic Kids
National Geographic Kids: Animals: Cane Toads
National Geographic site engages users with colorful photos and extensive facts about Cane Toads. Be sure to click on the video link to view a short clip on these fascinating animals.
Quia
Quia: Animal Classifications
An interactive matching game from Quia dealing with animal classifications.
Curated OER
Web Gallery of Art: Still Life With Insects and Amphibians
An image of "Still-Life with Insects and Amphibians", created by Otto Marseus Van Schrieck in 1662 (Oil on canvas, 50,7 x 68,5 cm).
Curated OER
Bodil Mimi Krogh Schmidt Nielsen (B. 1918) With Her Children
Bodil Mimi Krogh Schmidt-Nielsen (b. 1918), with her children (left to right) Mimi (age 5), Bent (age 9), and Astrid (age 11). They are shown examining study materials to be taken on an African expedition. The caption provided with the...
Other
Webucate: Free Multimedia Resources for Education
A labor of love created by a school in Great Britain. This is a well-organized image gallery with photos and other resources presented by topic, e.g., animals, places in the US, science, sports, etc. Though nothing to compare with a...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Frogs and Toads
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart contains a story about frogs ad toads, a video, and activities to go along with it.
Other
All About Frogs: Life Cycle of a Frog
Understand the reproduction and life cycle of a frog from mating through spawn, eggs, tadpoles, and growing legs to the final frog. Nice details.
Bagheera
Bagheera.com: Monteverde Golden Toad
The monteverde golden toad has not been seen since 1989 and is considered extinct by some scientists. This article describes what we know about the toad, but also discusses problems with amphibian populations as a whole. A major part of...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Life Science: Vertebrate Characteristics
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Vertebrates are animals with backbones. These include fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals. Learn more about vertebrate characteristics in this learning...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Animal Classification
[Free Registration/Login Required] This interactive flipchart examines characteristics of each animal family (mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fish) It contains an assessment at the end which can be used with Activotes.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Animal Classification
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students will classify organisms into groups and relate how they determined the groups with how and why scientists use classification. They will also demonstrate how animals are sorted into groups...
Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of Natural History: American Mammals: Pacific Shrew
An inhabitant of Oregon's moist streamsides, thickets, and woods, the Pacific Shrew does best in areas with brushy vegetation and fallen decaying logs. There it finds centipedes, slugs, and snails, insect larvae, amphibians, fungi, and...